Miss Marple · Book 12
Nemesis
- Published
- 1 January 1971
- Pages
- 230
- ISBN-13
- 9780007163243
- Type
- novel
About this book
Nemesis (1971, 230 pages), the eleventh novel, returns Marple to more familiar territory after the away-from-village settings of A Caribbean Mystery and At Bertram's Hotel, continuing the series' long-running interest in the folly hidden behind respectable appearances.
Its place in Miss Marple
Nemesis is book 12 in the Miss Marple series. It follows At Bertram's Hotel. It is followed by Sleeping Murder. See the full Miss Marple reading order.
Jane Marple is an elderly, unmarried amateur detective living in the small English village of St Mary Mead, and Agatha Christie's quiet rebuttal to the idea that a detective needs to be dashing, professional, or even taken seriously. Marple solves murders by pattern-matching them against a lifetime of village gossip and human folly — she has, she insists, seen every possible motive for murder already play out over a church fete or a dispute about the vicar's roses. Christie wrote twelve Marple novels between 1930…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007163243